Or - horror of horrors - perhaps web authors could avoid all unnecessary
bandwith-hogging graphics and other "features"
Basil
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 00:00, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> dcw wrote:
> > I saw an article several weeks ago about some software that would make
downloading web
> > pages faster. I did not bookmark the page and now I can not find it. Some
of the things
> > it did was to not display the background, ads, etc. I have Mandrake 9.1.
> >
> > Can someone point me to the right place?
> >
> I've seen lots of stuff about this. But -- my $0.02 -- it is just stuff as
far as *NIX is
> concerned because the only way to download a web page faster with dial up is
to have
> someone compress it on the other end of you connection.
>
> Since HTML is text, it *could* be compressed -- why it isn't is something I
am at a loss
> to understand. Note that IIUC Linux already is able to decompress it.
>
> --
> JRT
>
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